铜tóng
copper, bronze. 11 strokes, radical 钅, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin tóngStrokes 11Radical 钅Band HSK 6Words 1
How to write 铜
Strokes 1–5 write 钅, then strokes 6–11 write 同.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 铜 · the stroke-order rules
What 铜 is made of
钅 (jīn, gold) and 同 (tóng, same).
钅 carries the meaning — metal — and 同 carries the sound.
Words that use 铜
| 铜牌 | bronze medal 指第三名获得的奖牌 师父的徒弟拿到一枚铜牌。The master's pupil won a bronze medal. Lesson 653, 铜牌评选 · 生态文明与绿水青山 · Ecological Balance & Environmental Harmony |
Characters that share the sound part 同
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 钅
All 22 of them, and what the radical means, on the 金 radical page.